"A Fragile Truce": Here's What's In Trump's "Big Beautiful Monster"
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenEarlier this month, President Trump referred to his 'Phase 1' trade pact as a "big, beautiful monster."
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Earlier this month, President Trump referred to his 'Phase 1' trade pact as a "big, beautiful monster."
Killing general is meant to show 'real deterrence'
Sources familiar with the Phase 1 trade deal told Reuters China has agreed to purchase $80 billion of additional manufactured goods from the U.S. over the next 24 months, as part of the "Phase 1" trade deal that's expected to be signed on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the US and China will sign a compromise deal that will calm but not end a two-year trade war.
All of that paranoia about Beijing's meddling in the Taiwanese federal election was apparently for nought. Because Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has officially secured re-election to a second term in office, sending a clear signal to the mainland
On a mountaintop a few miles north of the bustling streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, a curving, modern complex is beginning to take shape. T
One important element of the $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2020, which US President Donald Trump signed into law in mid-December, is the directive to examine and monitor "Chinese military activities in the Arctic
A hint of citizen displeasure and resistance to Big Brother everywhere has peeked through in China. It's not just that the lawsuit against surveillance was filed, but that over 100 million social media users are following the story. The massive
Elon Musk raised an online storm by dancing on stage at the launch of Tesla's (TSLA.O) Model Y electric sports utility vehicle program on Tuesday in its new Shanghai factory, where the company delivered its first cars built outside the United State
Yang Jiechi, China's top diplomat, recently made several stops in Africa to monitor Chinese interests and bolster bilateral relations on the continent.
--after being launched by the 'world's most powerful rocket' as part of Beijing's Mars mission in 2020
It turns out, the Tesla Cybertruck is not hard to build, even by hand.
Be very thankful that you don't live in China. Approximately one out of every seven people on the entire planet lives in China, and it has become one of the most dystopian societies that the world has ever seen.
Tesla has produced battery packs at the Gigafactory since December.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is reporting China on Friday has requested restraint from all sides, "especially the United States," after the U.S. killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in an airstrike at Baghdad international airport.
Tesla's Shanghai factory has only been up and producing vehicles for a couple of months. Despite this, Tesla is already putting price cuts into effect for the Model 3s that it is producing there.
Shanghai replaces fireworks on New Year's Eve with thousands of drones which assemble midair to create a spinning globe, a running man and a countdown in incredible light display
Just three days after China quietly cut rates by 20bps when it ordered banks to switch from the traditional Benchmark 1 year rate to the new Loan Prime Rate (aka China's LIBOR) as the reference rate for new short-term loans, effectively lowering the
During colonial times, European powers exploited Africa for the vast resources that it possesses. But what China is doing today is actually much worse.
Joshua Bennett asks at my EPJ post, The Chinese Plan to Put 300 Million Chinese in Africa and Takeover the Continent:
Tesla stock is way up and the company is surging forward. Does this signal a solid year ahead?
Tesla delivers its first made-in-China electric cars which are priced at $50,000, less than a year after construction of its $2billion Shanghai 'Gigafactory' began
At a moment the US struck five supposedly 'Iran-linked' militia bases in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, sending regional tensions soaring, unprecedented four-day long joint naval drills involving Iran, Russia and China outside the Persian Gulf were simult
According to SCMP, China's Vice-Premier Liu He and chief trade negotiator will lead a delegation to Washington on Saturday, where he is expected to sign the phase one deal that will roll back some current tariffs in exchange for a "best effort" by Be
China announced Friday that it was nearing completion of its new global positioning system (GPS) network as it prepares to dominate the world's next generation of telecommunications services and further decouple from the US' GPS network, reported Nik
has been raiding Bitcoin miners who've been illegally using electricity -- presents a significant danger since so much of the world's hash rate is concentrated in one country, reported Asia Times.
After years of malinvestment, the bills are now coming due in China. With more than $6 trillion worth of debt, Chinese SOEs and cities find it increasingly difficult to meet payment deadlines.
The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.
The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.
The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.